CVE-2025-6052

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.28%

Glib: integer overflow in g_string_maybe_expand() leading to potential buffer overflow in glib gstring

Published: 6/13/2025Modified: 5/13/2026

Description

A flaw was found in how GLib’s GString manages memory when adding data to strings. If a string is already very large, combining it with more input can cause a hidden overflow in the size calculation. This makes the system think it has enough memory when it doesn’t. As a result, data may be written past the end of the allocated memory, leading to crashes or memory corruption.

Affected packages (4)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (5)